A trip to InterSpeech2012 (Part I)
(其实这是这学期开学前的事情了,居然各种原因拖到现在才写。如果不是这个月的to-do-list上面明确列出了这一项还不知道要拖到什么时候)
上周去Portland, Oregon参加了InterSpeech2012的会议。由于之前在微软亚洲研究院的工作,我有一个poster presentation。InterSpeech是由ISCA举办的一年一次的会议,2013年将在法国Lyon,2014年在新加坡,2015年在德国Dresden。
国际性的会议一般流程是这样的,首先committee会通过网站和邮件形式发布Call For Papers,也就是召集世界各地的研究人员投稿,文章被会议录用的人需要参加会议展示他们的工作,展示分为oral和poster两种。参加会议需要一定的注册费用和往返旅行费,这些由研究者或者实验室出,通常计入研究项目的预算中。同时,大型学术会议还会得到一些机构和公司的赞助。注册费和赞助费构成了会议的经营费用。这次InterSpeech的注册费大约350美元,赞助商有Nuance, Google, 百度, mmodal, Microsoft,BioSpeech,CISCO,Raytheon,ETS,intel,nextIT,PEARSON,speechocean等。
Portland是Oregon州比较大的城市,但其实也就和北京市海淀区那么大。整个城市的downtown地区大概只有中关村那么大。由于经济落后,在Oregon州是没有消费税的,这让好不容易习惯了美国所有商品实际花费都超过标签价格的我一开始还不太习惯。我自己处于省钱的考虑住了城北郊的一家Hostel,这是我住的地方:
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安顿下来之后就开始出去觅食,沿街走的时候看到了一处很像清华大礼堂的建筑:
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随便找了一家典型的美国餐馆。这是餐馆内部装饰:
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挑了个靠窗的座位,虽然接近六点天还是很亮:
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第一天就这样了,晚餐是很简单的汉堡和薯条。吃完之后回去和室友简单寒暄几句,洗过澡就准备睡了。第一次参加conference还是比较兴奋的,这是第二天早上在看去venue的地图:
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从城西北走到市中心大概也只要20分钟。路边的野花:
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路上的车和行人:
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逐渐接近市中心,第一天天气不错:
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大概能看出街道逐渐变得不那么荒凉,Portland还真是小城市,走走就行了~
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依旧是街景:
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venue外面照一张,Hilton Hotel:
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Conference的logo:
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Registration and Check-in:
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Hilton Hotel里面的Grand Ballroom,要是在这里结婚得多贵啊。。。
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到的比较早,大部分座位还是空着:
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第一天午餐在Pioneer Square草草解决了,风景真是不错。这里的天空比Seattle好:
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Student lunch event的邮件通知:
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Student Lunch Event,我这桌中国人略多:
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由于图片较多,还有一半的内容将在Part II里面介绍,主要是Portland的城市特色和除掉开会之外的其他活动。现在想想我应该把我们当时的poster照下来的,很有纪念意义啊。
posted on 2012-12-16 17:15 J. V. King 阅读(1080) 评论(0) 编辑 收藏 举报